A sentencing court must not adopt a mathematical formula to convert time spent in protective custody to an equivalent period in the general prison population. However, some allowance for protective custody conditions remains appropriate. Sentences for s 66C(3) offences committed on the same day, where the offender's admissions were critical to obtaining convictions, may properly be at the lenient end of the range without being manifestly inadequate.
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